BuzzKill Notification Manager

Sam Ruston

About this app

TIMES MAGAZINE - BEST INVENTIONS 2025
ANDROID AUTHORITY - "This is the notification manager Google should’ve built for Android years ago"
LIFEHACKER - "BuzzKill Is the Best Way to Manage Your Android Notifications"

BuzzKill allows you to see the notifications you need to see when you need to see them and filter out everything else you don't. Here is just a taste of what BuzzKill can do:

• Cooldown - Don't get buzzed multiple times when someone messages you multiple times in quick succession
• Custom alert - Set a custom sound or vibration pattern for a specific contact or phrase
• Dismiss - Automatically swipe away any notification you don't want to see, without hiding all notifications for that app
• Reply - Automatically reply to a message if you haven't seen it after a while
• Remind me - Keep reminding you until you see a notification
• Undo - Gives you a second chance to tap on a notification when you accidentally swipe it away
• Snooze - Receive your notifications in batches so they fit your schedule
• Alarm - Get your attention such as for a security camera notification
• Secret - Hide the content of the notification
• Keep a history of your notifications so you review or restore them later
• And many more...

FAQ: https://buzzkillapp.com
BuzzKill is privacy first. There are no ads, no trackers and no data ever leaves your device. Unlike pretty much every app on your phone and the Play Store it doesn't have access to the internet (you can check) so you can be sure that your data is safe.

Looking for a free trial?
BuzzKill cannot connect to the internet to verify purchases, so it does not offer a free trial in the app. However if you're not happy with your purchase, please press the contact support button in the app and I'll refund your order if you're outside of Google Play's returns period.

Wear OS
BuzzKill has a companion app for Wear OS that allows you to trigger certain actions on the watch based on the rules that the phone triggers. For example you can create a rule in BuzzKill to trigger an alarm when you receive a certain notification. With the BuzzKill companion app, you can have the alarm show up on your watch too.

Accessibility Service API
BuzzKill includes an optional accessibility service that allows it automate certain actions on your device. For example you set BuzzKill to automatically tap a button in a notification. No data is collected and no data leaves the device. You do not need to enable the accessibility service unless you create a rule that uses it.

Does BuzzKill work with phone calls?
Unfortunately phone calls work very differently to notifications and they have limited support in BuzzKill. E.g. you can't set a custom vibration or sound for a phone call, but you can use the unsilence rule to temporarily allow a phone call to unsilence your rule based on the time/location/phone number that is calling.

Ratings and reviews

Almost perfect. My only issue is batching notifications for long periods of time can lead to looking non-responsive. For example, if I set a Convo to "batch for 1 hr", then even the first message takes 1hr to notify. It would be great if the first message could be immediate, and then any messages in the next 1hr would get batched to reduce excessive notifications. I thought that's what cool down did, but it does not work as cool down still shows all notifications.

This app is a must have if you really want complete control over your notifications and what they do. It's very easy to use and well designed (which is an understatement). I use it to batch the notifications from my family (because my sisters text a lot). I also have it auto dismiss certain notifications and turn off silent for certain phrases in texts. Ofc you could do this with tasker but why bother with that headache when this is so much more intuitive and is pretty cheap?

Really cool app, great UI and easy to setup rules for notifications, but it always crashes whenever it tries to handle incoming notifications, so I was never able to use it. I waited 2 months for an update to come that fixed the crashes, but no update ever came, so I uninstalled today :/ As a fellow developer, I'm not gonna give this 1 star because the app is great, just didn't work for me

What’s new

Add "Is urgent" experimental extra (tap "contains anything" -> "extras")
Add "Category" experimental extra (based on wording, e.g. political messaging)
Add multiple phrases at once
Split secret options in settings
Option to popup notifications on watch when replacing notifications (on by default)
A bunch of fixes